Rock & Roll Tuning

[Greg Newell]

Terry,
         Words of advice? Well, yeah .... Tune fast!!! ;-)

Greg



At 07:10 AM 5/17/2002, you wrote:
>I will be tuning a piano for an outdoor concert featuring the rock/pop 
>band NRBQ. I don't do much concert tuning. The tuning will occur at 2 pm, 
>and the band takes the stage at 11 pm. I have tuned at only one outdoor 
>concert before and it was horrible from a tuning perspective as the sun 
>kept popping out and beating directly down on the piano interior during 
>the tuning. I hope this one is at least in the shade (who knows, maybe 
>we'll even have one of our Florida evening thunder storms between the 
>tuning and the concert - or better yet, during the tuning)!
>
>Hey, there's nobody here being pessimistic!
>
>I suppose the only thing to do is to do a good tuning and split. Any words 
>of wisdom, do's &/or don'ts? Surprise 'em w/ a fun meantone? (just kidding).
>
>Thanks for any thoughts.
>
>Terry Farrell
>

Greg Newell
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